"Mark inspires, motivates and enables clients to become creative and take control of their business and achieve measurable results"

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WANTING CHANGE TO HAPPEN... requires more than a change in Attitude & Performance.

ENABLING CHANGE TO HAPPEN... will require a CHANGE IN BEHAVIOUR!

Business Growth Coaching provides a great range of professional development workshops to help individuals,  management teams and the self employed to learn something new... that will help in their professional and business development.  The most popular Leadership & Management training workshops are listed below. However, this is not a definitive list.  To enquire about other workshops or to schedule a meeting. 

Call Mark... 07780 703091 to find out how we can help you, do it now while you are thinking about it!

  1. Business Growth
  2. Project Management
  3. Team Development
  4. Presentation Skills
  5. Sales Management
  6. Time Management
  7. Customer Satisfaction
  8. Influencing Skills
  9. Effective Communication
  10. Assertiveness

All our scheduled workshops are held at The British Racing School, Newmarket. However, we will deliver workshops at other venues if required.

The British Racing School
Snailwell Road
Newmarket
Suffolk
CB8 7NU

"Mark inspires, motivates and enables clients to become creative and take control of their business and achieve measurable results"

Call Mark... 07780 703091

book a meeting with Mark

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Please enter your details below and one of the team will contact you to discuss the workshop content that is important to you and your business.

Business Growth...

Planning the next stage of  your creative business development?

Whether you are the business owner, department manager or a team leader, we all need to plan to achieve business growth.  The truth is... the majority of individuals don't have a plan that is written down, it is only in their head.  Furthermore, the performance required to achieve the plan isn't documented as an objective. Therefore, it isn't measured or even reviewed.  If you are responsible for, or need to create a 1 year business growth plan and professional development plan... it is important to break it into 4 x quarters of manageable periods of time.  If you are not on schedule after 90 days (3 months).  It will be no surprise that your 365 day plan will take longer to achieve.  This will affect the desired outcome and could cost you financial, professionally or personally?

The benefits of having a 121 with a respected Business Coach…

  • Motivation, Clarity and a Clear Focus on what is important for the next 90 days,
  • Understanding what is important and not just urgent to achieve,
  • A ready to implement, real time 90 day plan with clear objectives,
  • Strategies for personal, team, profit or strategic growth,
  • Clear objectives that are S.M.A.R.T and provide a vehicle to move forwards with confidence,
  • Access to a great coach who leads by example,
  • A network of business professionals who want to achieve measureable results.

If you haven't had a 121 meeting with Mark before... you will be surprised at what you can achieve... he will help you to focus on what is important and not just urgent.  As a result, you will change your performance.    Please, complete the attendance form.  If you would prefer to talk to us call 07780 703091 do it now, while you are thinking about what is really important to you.

Date and Time

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Duration

1 day

Your investment for a 121 meeting... is just £250.00 + VAT.

This includes a DiSC Profile Report to maximise your learning, refreshments and a lunch to keep you hydrated and energised for this high impact session.

Project Management...

Being an effective project manager is dependant on your relationships?

Definition: Project management is the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience to achieve the project objectives.

Managing projects and tasks is not as simple as it seems.  With different people to satisfy and challenging deadlines to meet, it is often overwhelming.  How do you set up to succeed? This seminar shows you the practical tools; techniques and advice to deliver your own project within budget and on time, as well as understanding your role in helping someone else deliver a project.

The benefits of attending the Project Management Workshop…

Getting down to the 'nitty gritty' of project delivery.  Explore the essential roles of the project manager, how to help someone deliver a project, the types of project report and how to control the inevitable changes that will come along... because change is necessary and needs to happen!

  • Tips to deliver to time, to cost and also to specification,
  • If it can go wrong it will go wrong - predict the problems and plan your responses,
  • Effective task and delegation,
  • Define the task - setting powerful goals and objectives,
  • The proper way to put time scales by using Milestone Planning,
  • Tips on how to plan and allocate project responsibilities,
  • Get the best from a Team, four vital factors in building and leading an effective team,
  • The six essential strategies for action on risks,
  • Establishing a clear scope, and combating the dreaded "scope creep",
  • Establishing priorities,
  • The two principal means of reporting progress,
  • Tips to handle changes,
  • Activity planning when using the project planning tool: the Gantt Chart,
  • The 3 key tasks to finally close down your project.

Date and Time

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Duration

1 day

Your investment for attendance... is just £250.00 + VAT.

This includes DiSC Profile Report to maximise your learning, refreshments and a lunch to keep you hydrated and energised for this high impact workshop.

 

Team Development...

Developing a "High Performing and Creative Team"

If only my team was capable of delivering more... so I didn't have to do so much?

You are working really hard... you are focused on what needs to be achieved, but your team is not achieving the required results.  You are successful as an individual and you wish others were as well!  However, when it comes to working together as a team, the results do not reflect the time and effort being implemented.  The team is not working together, the morale, effectiveness, relationships and commitment are not enough to achieve the required results… What can you do about it?

The Benefits of attending the Team Development Workshop…

  • How do you view yourself,
  • How would others describe you and why,
  • What do you think about the feedback you receive,
  • Are you ready to understand your behaviour style,
  • Making change happen in the short-term and medium-term,
  • How do you turn short-term into long-term business benefits,
  • How do you measure the performance of your team.

Date and Time

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Duration

1 day

Your investment for attendance... is just £250.00 + VAT.

This includes DiSC Profile Report to maximise your learning, refreshments and a lunch to keep you hydrated and energised for this high impact workshop.

Presentation Skills...

Presentation Skills... Get your ideas across effectively!

Imagine easily engaging, influencing and impact your listeners?  In this workshop you gain the skills to create presentation passion, engage with any audience and make focused and powerful presentations.  This workshop will help you present with more confidence and influence more persuasively.  Do you need to get your ideas across effectively?  How do you get people to listen?  Discover and rectify the single most common mistake people make when trying to get their ideas over.

We will also look at presentation basics such as how to avoid PowerPoint overload and other basic presenting mistakes which are still all too common.  The workshop also covers both the hard and soft skills necessary to raise your game and get your ideas listened to.  You will learn how to engage and hold the attention of your audience with tried and trusted techniques.  Deliver high conversion rate customer presentations and pitches that focused your sales revenues.

The benefits of attending the next Presentation Skills Workshop…

Influence your presentation to achieve effective listening from your audience:

  • How you captivate senior decision makers and keep them in the room,
  • How to focus your presentation to match a prospect's exact expectations,
  • How you design visual aids that immediately capture the prospect's attention,
  • How you ensure prospects remember you,
  • How you turn questions and objections into strong buying points,
  • Techniques and skills of a master presenter - lots of do's and don'ts,
  • Simple techniques to makes sure you never forget a key selling point,
  • How to close on the order or the next course of action.

Date and Time

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Duration

1 day

Your investment for attendance... is just £166.00 + VAT.

This includes DiSC Profile Report to maximise your learning, refreshments and a lunch to keep you hydrated and energised for this high impact workshop.

 

Sales Management...

Sales Management Workshop...

How to achieve more sales and develop relationships?

The time has come to focus on winning new business…  We all need sales if the business is to grow.  But how do you go about winning new business?  How have you developed your sales process?  Does the sales process work consistently or is it hit and miss?  Do you consider sales as a game that people play or is it a process that should be enjoyable, by both the customer and the sales person.

The benefits of attending the next Sales Management Workshop…

  •     How do you view yourself as a sales person,
  •     How would others describe you and why,
  •     What do you need to demonstrate to build trust,
  •     How do you build relationships and why is that important to you,
  •     What is your sales process,
  •     How effective is your sales process for building long-term relationships,
  •     What is required of a professional sales person… become that person. 

Date and Time

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Duration

1 day

Your investment for attendance... is just £250.00 + VAT.

This includes DiSC Profile Report to maximise your learning, refreshments and a lunch to keep you hydrated and energised for this high impact workshop.

 

Time Management...

How should you make effective use of your time...

As we look at our time management, it only makes sense to start with the end in mind.  Why is that important? Simply put - if you do not have a clear vision or goals in life or in business - then time management really becomes pointless. 

Developing the right mindset and proper attitude sets the stage for creating effective time management habits and disciplines.  Many of us feel chaos in our lives because we have not established the fundamental disciplines of time management.  Some feel they are "cursed" with poor time management habits and have decided it's a hopeless quest to change them.  You have to first believe your situation can change and that you have the power to overcome your ingrained habits.  Once you have a firm desire and make the conscious decision to get control of your time, you will then be open and prepared to learn and embrace the key disciplines and tools of effective time management.  Time management, like any learned habit, typically will take at least three weeks to develop and then many months and years to refine until you master the discipline. 

The Benefits of attending the Time Management Workshop...

Much has been written and said about time management, but here is a simple and effective process for getting things done on time and in full: 

  • Decide exactly what you want to achieve, 
  • Work in periods of 90 minutes,
  • Set a deadline for your objectives/goals,
  • Make a list of what needs to be done,
  • Take frequent breaks,
  • Review your progress,
  • Celebrate your successes.

They act as the "guiding lights" to keep you on track, using your time in the most efficient manner possible.

Date and Time

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Duration

1 day

Your investment for attendance... is just £166.00 + VAT.

This includes DiSC Profile Report to maximise your learning and refreshments to keep you hydrated and energised for this high impact workshop.

 

Customer Satisfaction...

How high would you rate your customer satisfaction skills?

Hundreds of millions of telephone calls are made each and every day around the world and many of those calls are made by customers.  It is clear that the way these telephone calls are handled can make a huge difference to a company's relationship with it's customers.

Using the telephone competently and courteously is essential to customer and client satisfaction.  Poor telephone etiquette can have a disastrous effect on your telephone customer service - and bottom line.

Face to face meetings can have the same effect if you are poorly prepared, make a bad first impression or don't honour your personal commitments and or, meeting action points

Both the above will test the business relationship of both parties... don't be the reason that your customers decides to terminate your business relationship.

The benefits of attending the Customer Satisfaction Workshop…

  • Preparation. Have a fair idea of what you are going to say in advance of your telephone call or meeting,

  • Have a mental script you can fall back on if the conversation wonders,

  • Introduction... how do we introduce ourselves with a handshake or verbally,

  • Build rapport... be yourself and keep it friendly,

  • Speak Clearly... making yourself understood is a key principle of effective customer service,

  • Tone of Voice... friendly but authoritative manner works well, develop your own personality and vary your vocal pitch to avoid sending the caller to sleep,

  • Keep it positive,

  • Listen... listening to your customer is more important than speaking,

  • Closing the meeting, make sure you give assurance that any promises you have made will be fulfilled.

          And here's my special bonus tip..

  • The Golden Rule. Always treat your customers exactly how you want to be treated yourself!

  • By following these telephone customer service tips not only will you communicate effectively with your customers - you will positively impact your company's bottom line.

 

Date and Time

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Duration

1 day

Your investment for attendance... is just £166.00 + VAT.

This includes DiSC Profile Report to maximise your learning, refreshments and a lunch to keep you hydrated and energised for this high impact workshop. 

 

Influencing Skills...

Influencing Skills...

There is no right or wrong way to influence others.  Everything, but everything, is a factor when influencing people.  We are, all of us, influenced by people, places, events and situations at all times.  Sometimes we are affected more or less by these things, but we are continually being influenced by what happens around us.  It is about adapting and modifying your personal style when you become aware of the affect you are having on other people, while still being true to yourself.  Behaviour and attitude change are what's important, not changing who you are or how you feel and think.

You may try to exert your influence through coercion and manipulation.  You might even succeed in getting things done; but that isn't really influencing.  That's forcing people to do what you want, often against their will. You won't have succeeded in winning support.  Pushing and bullying DO NOT WORK!  Just like elephants, people will remember the experience and never forget it!

How do you Influence?

Influencing is about understanding yourself and the effect or impact you have on others.  Though it can, on occasion, be one way, the primary relationship is two way, and it is about changing how others perceive you.

In other words, perception is reality, makes perfect sense in the context of influencing.  It doesn't matter what's going on internally for you - if it isn't perceived by the other person, then it doesn't exist, other than in your mind.

You could be doing the most brilliant presentation you've ever created, but if you haven't brought your 'audience' with you, the brilliance is wasted.  And that's about being able to see what's going on for them, which will be different, however much you may have in common.  Influencing can sometimes be looked at as the ability to 'finesse', almost sleight of hand.  The other person isn't prodded into seeing your view of the world, but is persuaded, often unconsciously, into understanding it.

The Benefits of attending the Influencing Skills Workshop...

This workshop goes far beyond basic influencing skills and focuses on some of the more advanced techniques available.  This material really works... it will provide you with a clear understanding of how you are viewed by others.  This will help you to adapt your communication style to engage with anyone, at any level.

Targeted Areas:

  • Use high impact language that really works,
  • Identify the factors that have been proven to influence others,
  • Learn the universal principles of influence that are guaranteed to success,
  • Structure your conversation for maximum persuasive impact,
  • Identify the vital factors necessary for changing behaviours,
  • Learn how a simple item can significantly enhance your influencing power,
  • Identify effective, solution-focused communication techniques that set you apart,
  • Know the expert 'question-asking' skills that key influencers use.

Learn how to keep that 'monkey off your back' and with its rightful owner!

Date and Time

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Duration

1 day

Your investment for attendance... is just £166.00 + VAT.

This includes DiSC Behaviour Profile Report to maximise your learning and refreshments, for this high impact workshop.

 

Effective Communication...

Your Personal Communication Style...

Sometimes you can get so used to your own personal style or way of being or pattern of communicating, that you don't think of how it is being received, and you don't think of behaving in any other way. Effective communication is about being able to move things forward, without pushing, forcing or telling others what to do.  Now what we know is that one of the most powerful forces that affect people's behaviour is the avoidance of humiliation.

Behaviour Change...

No one wants to embarrass themselves if they can help it!  So changing your behaviour entails a certain risk.  But if that behaviour change is deliberate, and you have made an effort to see the world from the other person's point of view, then humiliation can be avoided on both sides.

Whatever the arena you work in influencing others is about having the confidence and willingness to use yourself to make things happen.  Influencing people is also the ability to 'work' a dynamic, whether it's a large group, one to one or over the phone.  By 'working' the dynamic, we mean using everything at your disposal, both verbal and non-verbal communication, to create the impact you want, rather than letting things just happen.

The Benefits of attending the Effective Communication Workshop...

This workshop goes far beyond basic communication skills and focuses on some of the more advanced communication techniques available.  This material really works... it will provide you with a number of high-level skills, to help you communicate effectively with anyone, at any level.

Targeted Areas:

  • Find 'breakthrough' communication techniques,
  • Use high impact language that really works,
  • Identify the factors that have been proven to influence others,
  • Learn the universal principles of communication that are guaranteed to success,
  • Structure your conversation for maximum persuasive impact,
  • Identify the vital factors necessary for changing behaviours,
  • Identify effective, solution-focused communication techniques that set you apart,
  • Know the expert 'question-asking' skills that great communicators use.

Date and Time

Call Mark to find out more about the next workshop.

Duration

1 day

Your investment for attendance... is just £166.00 + VAT.

This includes DiSC Behaviour Profile Report to maximise your learning and refreshments, for this high impact workshop.

 

Assertiveness...

Assertiveness Behaviour...

Being assertive means being confident enough to clearly and effectively express your feelings and opinions; while still valuing the opinions of others.  It’s important because it impacts directly on the way that you communicate and interact with other people and helps build your self-esteem.

If you lack assertiveness, it can affect your relationships both personally and professionally.  If you act passively or aggressively in situations, over time, it can lead to stress, anxiety or even depression as well as having a negative impact on your physical health too.

Each assertiveness workshop is classroom based with a mix of hands on practical and common sense theory to achieve effective learning.  This is achieved buy sharing information and conducting role play experiences to fully appreciate... what needs to be done and how to do it effectively!

The Benefits of attending the Assertiveness Workshop...

This workshop identifies the behaviour and communication required to implement and maintain an assertive management style.  This material really works... it will provide you with the confidence to address relationship issues and to manage projects effectively and efficiently. 

Targeted Areas:

  1. What are the consequences of not being assertive?
  2. What is your behaviour style… is it helping you?
  3. What are your behaviour descriptors and targets… are they helping you?
  4. Why do you need to be more assertive?... 6 tips to increase your assertiveness.
  5. How would you like to apply assertiveness?... 10 ways to build and preserve better boundaries.
  6. How would you like to be viewed by others vs how are you viewed by others?
  7. What do you need to do to be more assertive?
  8. How are you going to be more assertive… what are you going to do that is different?
  9. Action Planning? … 21 tips to stop being a people pleaser.
  10. What do you need to be clear about without being aggressive?
  11. You must be the change agent…
  12. Any Q’s & Review!

Date and Time

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Duration

1 day

Your investment for attendance... is just £166.00 + VAT.

This includes DiSC Behaviour Profile Report to maximise your learning and refreshments, for this high impact workshop.